Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Robert White served as U.S. ambassador under different administrations. He is currently president of the Center for International Policy. In 1980-81, he was posted to El Salvador during the first years of that country''s brutal 12-year civil war. He was harshly critical of the Salvadorian government and accused the military and paramilitaries (widely alleged to have close ties) of committing widespread atrocities against civilians, many of which were later factually confirmed. He once called prominent military figure Roberto D''Aubuisson a "pathological killer". D''Aubuisson was widely suspected of collaboration with death squad killings including the assassination of Archbishop Óscar Romero.